Word: ernenek
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first white man's camp that Eskimo Ernenek ever saw on his hunting grounds in the Canadian Arctic made Ernenek tremble with curiosity. He decided to load his wife Asiak and the kids on his dog sled and pay the explorers a visit...
...visit was disillusioning. When Ernenek followed the old Eskimo custom of rummaging through his hosts' baggage somebody rapped him sharply across the knuckles. Then somebody else offered him whisky, a drink that made him miserably hot, so he decided that white men were an unfriendly lot at best. Turning his back on the explorers, he built an igloo nearby and settled down with his family for a sleep-only to be awakened shortly afterward by an uninvited anthropologist. While the "lemming-faced" white intruder busily sketched everything in sight, hospitable Ernenek brought out his choicest delicacy, "a thoroughly chewed...
Joyously, Asiak complied by combing her hair with a fish spine and rubbing melted blubber all over her face. But the Eskimos still had the visiting anthropologist wrong. When Ernenek showed signs of leaving and Asiak made signs of seduction, the visitor dived for the tunnel. Enraged Hunter Ernenek hauled him back by the seat of his pants. "How dare you so insult a man?" roared Ernenek, and bashed out the anthropologist's brains...
Because women were scarce in a land where mothers often killed their female Dabies, Ernenek spent many a six-month night sharing his friends' wives before he found a bride. After he had given Asiak's parents a lamp in trade for her, he felt 'proud that as a married man he now was in a position to repay other husbands for what little favors he had received from them." Tied down in one spot for a year by Asiak's mother, who was too old to travel and whose teeth, "used down to the gums...
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